Word: haired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needy mestizo children, as they are called, said: "These children certainly are worth saving. Generally of a high-strung, nervous temperament, and rather emotional, their blood characteristics appear very prominently. They have initiative and imagination, which are wholly lacking in the native. You never mistake them. Their light hair, blue eyes, and clean-cut American features are too evident. The girls,, i if educated, are particularly sought as wives by ambitious and self-respecting men. They boys, if properly brought up, should become leaders of the Filipino people...
...harbor at San Pedro, the Seattle, flagship of the U. S. fleet, lay at anchor. On her deck Admiral Samuel S. Robison,*sturdy stocky, determined, dark-complexioned with iron-grey hair and a close-clipped mustache, faced Admiral Robert E. Coontz, for two years Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet. Everyone wore his very best bib and uniform, immaculate, ceremonial. There were a few stiff movements, an exchange of salutes and Samuel S. Robison became Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet
...Sothern, some 65 years old, his snow-white hair dyed black, gives a distinguished and a dominating performance. It is withal an elderly performance, reminiscent of an earlier generation in the Theatre, cut and gestured to measure; yet it has a quality of thoroughness and intelligence that makes it tower above the peculiarities of much of the present day acting. The play is a vocal treat, for Sothern's is probably the finest speaking-voice we know of in our Theatre...
Louis D'Arclay gave a spirited performance as Chico, the sewer rat who never let life get the better of him. When he prayed to "le bon Dieu" for his heart's desire, a job on "the hose", a wife with yellow hair, and a ride in a taxi-cab, and even payed good money to burn candles to his favorite saint, nothing happened; and so Chico forthwith became an atheist and went around proclaiming that God owed him fifteen francs. And it must have done some good for eventually God paid the debt. Tormented by a wicked, dope-ridden...
...possessor of the traditionally incompatible faculties is usually bored by undue reference to them, as was National Women's Tennis Champion Helen Wills, last week, when newspaper men panted up to ejaculate and interrogate about her election to Phi Beta Kappa. In red blazer, white skirt, her hair in a bun, she was about to play a set or two of the sport she dominates and she bounced her ball impatiently during the rigmarole of questions...